first edition Hardcover
1730 · Amsterdam
by Desfontaines, Pierre Francois Guyot
Amsterdam: Au dépens de la Compagnie, 1730. First Amsterdam Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, [28], 204, [8], 190 pages; VG; bound in contemporary leather boards with blind tooling, rebacked with new black leather spine, previous brown leather labels; marbled endpapers; mild age-toning throughout; text block stained red; separate title pages, pagination restarts; The Paris edition precedes the Amsterdam edition of the same year; scarce in this Imprint. Shelved in Room G. Desfontaines' imitation of Lemuel Gulliver's travels was written after he had finished the first French translation of Swift's Gulliver's Travels in 1727. 1293050. Special Collections.
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